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How to Manage the Top Five Global Economic Challenges The world’s economic system has been through a lot in recent years — from the challenge of the financial crisis to income inequality, the pressures of immigration, changing technologies and geographic shifts in production, to name a few. In this opinion piece, Kalin Anev Janse, secretary general […]

Japan and Europe are racing to agree a big free trade deal Negotiators from the European Union and Japan say they’re close to striking a major free trade agreement that could jump-start talks for other potential deals. “An ambitious EU-Japan deal would send a powerful signal to the rest of the world that two of

Europe M&A surges but U.S. slows sharply amid uncertainty Acquisitions of European companies surged in recent months, amid optimism about the region’s economic prospects, but global deal-making subsided and the total value of U.S. deals fell sharply due to uncertainty about President Donald Trump’s tax reform and deregulation agenda. Mergers and acquisitions in Europe rose

World Bank says trade, manufacturing to boost 2017 global growth The World Bank on Sunday maintained its forecast that global growth will improve to 2.7 percent this year, citing a pickup in manufacturing and trade, improved market confidence and a recovery in commodity prices. The update of the multilateral development lender’s Global Economic Prospects report

AfDB meetings end with call to unlock agri potential of Africa African Development Bank’s (AfDB) annual meetings in Gandhinagar ended on Thursday with a call to unlock the huge agriculture potential for overall development of the continent. Wide ranging deliberations on agriculture, food security, energy and trade and investments as well as deepening relations with

Millions of Reasons to move abroad – Internations study How many reasons are there for moving abroad? Perhaps as many as 57,000,000! That astounding eight-digit figure is the estimated number of expatriates in the world. Their specific backgrounds and reasons for making the big move are just as multifaceted as the globe itself. Thanks to

Countries Acting Alone Pose Main Risk to Trade System, WTO Says The biggest risk to the global trade order is one country taking unilateral action that disrespects the system, according to World Trade Organization Director-General Roberto Azevedo. “This temptation exists whenever you have a very sluggish economy, where you have near-stagnation, the tendency to find

2017 A.T. Kearney Foreign Direct Investment Confidence Index The United States tops the A.T. Kearney Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) Confidence Index for the fifth year in a row (see figure 1).2 Sustained investor interest in the US economy is likely the result of three factors. First, investors have an overwhelmingly positive outlook for the American economy